The Champions League anthem sounded hollow and imperfect last night on that red zeppelin with which Bayern flies.
It may be an omen of what was going to fall on Atlético.
For the champion it was just one more win to add to his notebook.
To Flick's immaculate notebook.
For the rojiblancos it was a blush that was seen falling to a slow fire.
It gave him heart and momentum, but it takes a lot more to bring down a giant.
Aim, without going any further.
In the rubble, buried like the rest, Oblak couldn't even appear.
And that is a lot to say.
And that Atlético did not have the detail of knocking on the door.
He thought the best thing to do is to show up by surprise, without warning, and sit down at the table without giving the host time to compose himself.
So, as soon as he started, he planted himself convinced in the Neuer area, Lodi looked up and delivered a package that Luis Suárez, one meter from the goal, could not pick up.
From the band, Simeone was in charge of starting the pressure.
"Hit it, hit it, hit it!" Roared the Argentine, before the gaze of Lucas, his longed-for ex, used to having him on his back in the past.
Only by suffocating Bayern would it be possible to hold on to the feat.
Because the German team has not lost a game since they fell, precisely, before their predecessor on the throne, Liverpool, in March 2019. The rest, a dozen victories with which they pocketed yesterday.
To stand in front of a steamroller you have to be brave.
There is no other.
Multifunctional footballers
Bayern may have been surprised by that phosphorous Atletico uniform.
In any case, the shock did not last long.
The giant was soon awake.
He did it remotely controlled by that surgeon he has in the center of the field and who was once also a winger named Kimmich.
The boy who Guardiola transformed pulled out his scalpel to dissect the rojiblanco heart over and over again.
Oblak watched like a statue as Süle smashed the ball into his stick and sensed that Coman, another of Flick's innumerable bullets, would end up being a martyrdom, as it turned out.
And it is that in the Bavarian team everyone knows how to do everything.
Atlético did not leave, far from it, scared, who saw how their only hope above, Luis Suárez, finished off Carrasco's genius anywhere, always showing his self-confidence.
On the left-handed flank the rojiblancos invented the best arguments to bring out the colors of the ogre.
Although those intentions would barely last half an hour.
Atlético's momentum began to fade from their own mistakes.
Felipe trembled first and Joao Félix shrugged his leg later, when he saw Kimmich coming, furrowing the grass at full speed.
Simeone, of course, was taken by demons.
The fact is that the German took out the periscope and invited Coman to start writing the twelfth consecutive victory in the Champions League.
Minutes later, the slip would be Herrera and the thrust, Goretzka, after connecting with the electric French footballer.
Frustration with VAR
The field, cold inside and out, and also soaked at the last minute to accelerate Bayern's frantic pace, looked something like a Tower of Babel.
The mix of Bavarian protests where German and English mingled to draw the attention of British referee Michael Oliver.
And Atlético, not to be the least, was vehemently demanding between Spanish and the referee's native language.
Especially when the second part just dawned, with renewed vigor, when Joao Félix finally scored.
"It's a goal, it's a goal!" They shouted at the foot of the grass and from the stands.
But the VAR revealed that Luis Suárez, who will surely have nightmares with Bayern, covered Neuer's vision.
I would still forgive another Carrasco.
Mercy is synonymous with misfortune when the best soccer team on the planet is in front of you.
There is usually no going back.
At his pace, always frantic, as if his people were pushing him, he was burying Atlético.
Tolisso's distant shoe came that Oblak, unknown, did not even intuit.
And Coman's work of art arrived, after making Felipe dizzy and undressing the Slovenian goalkeeper.
Not even that much stopped the local avalanche.
The guys from Flick, all together, kept crushing the grass wherever they stepped.
Germany was once again a grave for the rojiblancos, just like in Dortmund, two years ago.
At least this is the first episode and the storm will eventually abate.
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